Mathematically Speaking – a series of podcasts
In this series of engaging podcasts, Mathematically Speaking explores the language of Mathematics:
In this series of engaging podcasts, Mathematically Speaking explores the language of Mathematics:
A hundred and twenty years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in Greece. What they found changed our understanding of human history. It was the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. Simply incredible! The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism has captured the imagination of […]
“They knew I was a crazy mathematician and had no sense of reality.” Dr. Richard W Hamming For many years, Bell Labs ran an internal speaker series known as the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series. This particular talk, given by Dr. Richard W Hamming in 1986, was focused on answering one question: “Why do so […]
For nearly 100 years, the mysterious tablet above (no, it’s not an iPad) has been referred to as Plimpton 322. It was first discovered in Iraq in the early 1900s by Edgar Banks, the American archaeologist on which the character Indiana Jones is thought to have been largely based. Now researchers from the University of […]
Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical “time machine” – a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space. The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in […]